Total NIMBY Death
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Total NIMBY Death
@BarneyFlames
We must know. We will know.

It’s easy to laugh this off with British gallows humour, but learning the lessons of how we spent £179 million to build nothing is crucial if we are to avoid existential decline.


@alt_ccc I think the saddest realization is that a one state solution, especially in this climate, will not be possible, and people who believe it sadly are naive. A one state solution just leads a runoff election between people like Ben Gavir and Yahwya Sinwar.





i gave GPT-5.4 the easy subset + the reference Brainfuck interpreter and asked it to write solutions, and it one-shotted 20/20

I never respected this guy but now I respect him even less. This is an absolutely braindead take when you look at the details. Not only is the task something almost no human programmers can do either (one-shotting programs in ridiculous languages like brainfuck) the models can solve it just fine when allowed to use their full capabilities in an agentic harness.

Never forget that most of the garbage Reps, simply just want a job and to be told they are a Congressman. They have no loyalty and no ideals, and bail the second it gets tough.




The famous SFFA case treated Indians and East Asians as a single group. This masked significant heterogeneity: It's way harder to get in if you're Indian! In Columbia's internal admissions database (h/t @cremieuxrecueil), East Asian applicants had a 41% lower odds of admission than equally qualified White applicants, whereas South Asian applicants had 63% lower odds.


@SVPhillimore The spin the GLP has put on this judgment is extraordinary. Contrast it with the video they published at the time of the hearing, and their description of the decision to appeal the costs order as “bizarre”. This was campaigning litigation which they supported but which failed

yes Norman Borlaug was a humble Iowa farmer, but he had a PhD in plant pathology and genetics. And was a professor at Minnesota, Cornell, and Texas A&M.








